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[Tigeraholic1]

Interesting, enjoy summer while you still can!

 

[CMRivdogs]

41 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Interesting, enjoy summer while you still can!

 

School’s about to start or has already in nearby districts. Might as well get dark earlier😊

Maybe the later mornings will keep the pup in bed longer

[oblong]

Similarly, this is sunrise taken from the same spot showing the angle.

I can always tell the time of year based on how the sun hits my basement windows.  During peak summer it is a straight shot into one that covers the full length.  You think lights are on.  And during June and July it also hits directly into our bedroom window.   It makes getting up early easier.  8 am sunrises blow.

 

[oblong]

Yuengling is coming to MI bars today, a few near me will have it.  I like it.  But I also equate it with being on vacation as i've only had it in Florida and TN.  So will it have the same effect?  

 

[chasfh]

On 8/8/2025 at 1:44 PM, oblong said:

Similarly, this is sunrise taken from the same spot showing the angle.

I can always tell the time of year based on how the sun hits my basement windows.  During peak summer it is a straight shot into one that covers the full length.  You think lights are on.  And during June and July it also hits directly into our bedroom window.   It makes getting up early easier.  8 am sunrises blow.

 

I assume this set of photographs was taken in the southern hemisphere?

[oblong]

According to Reddit it’s from Amman Jordan and according to another source that’s about as far north from the equator as San Diego. 

[gehringer_2]

29 minutes ago, oblong said:

According to Reddit it’s from Amman Jordan and according to another source that’s about as far north from the equator as San Diego. 

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Movement of Sunrise and Sunset

Daily eastward shift:

The Sun "drifts" eastward by about one degree each day relative to the background stars, completing a full circle in about 365.25 days. 

Seasonal variations:

Due to Earth's axial tilt, the points where the sun rises and sets shift throughout the year. 

Equinoxes: Around the spring and fall equinoxes, the sun rises due east and sets due west. 

Solstices: On the summer solstice (around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere), the sun rises and sets at its most northerly points. On the winter solstice (around December 21), the sun rises and sets at its most southerly points. 

 

 

[oblong]

I don’t care about any of that. I just think it’s a cool picture.  It’s all relative isn’t it ?  We’re not curing cancer or sending men to Jupiter. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

I don’t care about any of that. I just think it’s a cool picture.  It’s all relative isn’t it ?  We’re not curing cancer or sending men to Jupiter. 

this kind of stuff  is just funny to me in that in the ancient world, you could probably ask any 10 yr old and they would know all kinds of natural observables like where exactly the Sun rose and set each month and which way the crescent moon faced when waxing or waning (which I can never remember) and in the modern world we so seldom pay any attention to any of it that we have look it up to check if what we think is right. I love reading old greek, or maybe early church writers just to get a sense of the ways that they perceived the world differently than we do (and the ways they had their act exactly together!.) For instance, speaking of the Sun, the early Church theologians spent a good deal of time worrying about whether the Sun and Moon were alive. OOH, that seems pretty quaint to us, OTOH, I can see how people could regard that as an important question to resolve!

OTOH, today's 10 yr old probably has a pretty good idea of how to hack their home firewall.....

😂

[oblong]

I have an atomic clock that shows me the moon phases.  It is amazing what our forefathers learned.  The dude that used a shadow from a stick to measure the circumference of the earth.   It’s about figuring out how to do it with what you have.  It’s why I consider the moon landings our greatest tech achievement.  Not that we necessarily did it. But it’s the when we did it and with what we did it with.  In 1963 they weren’t even sure someone could eat or drink in space. 
 

I was amazed when reading the astronauts accounts in learning orbital mechanics and doing a rendezvous.  It is backwards in terms of intuition but makes sense now.  Yet all these engineers and pilots with advanced degrees didn’T know until they got up there.  In an orbit you “slow down” by accelerating. That gets you in a higher orbit and this takes you longer to “move” to another object. To speed up you decelerate to drop to a lower orbit and you get there faster. But you don’t just point and hit the gas.   They calculated these things with punch card systems on a system with less computing power than your toothbrush. 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

On 8/11/2025 at 12:03 PM, oblong said:

Yuengling is coming to MI bars today, a few near me will have it.  I like it.  But I also equate it with being on vacation as i've only had it in Florida and TN.  So will it have the same effect?  

 

No. Before it came to Ohio, I always got excited when I had a chance to import some (or have it on vacation). Now I rarely buy it.

[Motor City Sonics]

 

[oblong]

Hank Winchester cleared of all charges

[oblong]

WKRP - Johnny Fever

 

every Johnny Fever clip from WKRP followed by the song he hyped. 

[Tigeraholic1]

In Chicago celebrating my daughter’s 21st birthday. We are staying a Airbnb near her apartment in Oak Park. I look across the street and see this. So cool had no idea his home was here. 

[CMRivdogs]

The Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio is a few blocks away. In fact there are several Frank Lloyd Wright homes in the area...

Oak Park is a cool area. Was out of our price range in the 1990s